Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy

Great viral video making its 3rd or 4th go-round the Internet circles: Louis CK's appearance on Conan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

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KEEP YOUR VOICE WHILE GHOST WRITING

Being a ghost writer is strange.  I've been writing content for other people/companies for so long that I feel like my own voice has been transplanted.  Kind of like splicing fruit trees together and coming up with a very bizarre taste that is *kind of* like your own, but certainly not.  It's biting into an apple and tasting orange.

If you ever decide to come along and do this kind of work, you should be ready to stand up for your own thoughts, even while you're helping someone craft a better message.  Don't compromise your beliefs and your clients will appreciate you more for it.  A lesson I'm still learning too.

Congratulations to My Dad

My Dad is a Publisher of Christian books (both fiction and non-fiction).  Then he decided he would have a go at writing his own fiction novel and shopping it to competing publishers.

Not only did he land a contract and finish his novel, but it's going to debut in all U.S. Barnes & Noble Stores starting in March.  He's going to sell a million copies!  I'm really proud of him sticking to it.

We built him a website at www.missionarynovel.com.  We partner with a small company here in Portland called SliceFire for some of our videos, and they did the one on the front of the MissionaryNovel.com website.

We're trying to get better at video production too.  My two latest attempts are:

• Assist International S.H.A.R.E.S. Card
• DEEPcart -- Sad Tale of Abandoned Shopping Carts

Stay tuned.  I hope my Dad takes us all on a long, tropical vacation after his appearance on Larry King.

Announcing DEEPcart, in beta

We have been working for 8 months on a new platform for our enterprise partners. We call it DEEP, which stands for Dynamic E-commerce Exchange Platform. That's tech-speak for "Great E-commerce + Features You Need." (We elected not to call it GEFYN.)

It's based on the wildly popular Magento platform (an open-source solution that has the web developer community drooling), but DEEP has some key additions that are all our own. We are finishing the website (www.deepcart.com) and putting some of our preferred clients on the new platform to see how it behaves. So far, it's incredible and we're delighted with the performance.

More on this soon... I'm busy just getting clients on the new platform. If you want to see a demo of the cart, email me at chris@surfperch.com and I'll give you access to the beta site.

Thanks.

Chris Carmichael